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Sir Patient Fancy choose

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[UK] Behn Sir Patient Fancy I: If I can purchase him, and my own Dog prove right, I’ll be Duke of Ducking-Pond, ads zoz.
at ads, n.
[UK] Behn Sir Patient Fancy IV i: Sir Credulous What, last Night, when you rescued me from the Bilbo-Blades! indeed ye look’d a little furiously.
at bilbo-blade (n.) under bilbo, n.
[UK] Behn Sir Patient Fancy V i: Pray, how long is’t since you left Toping and Napping, for Quacking, good Brother Cater-tray?
at cater-trey, n.
[UK] Behn Sir Patient Fancy V i: She here! now for a Peal from her eternal Clapper; I had rather be confin’d to an Iron-mill.
at clapper, n.1
[UK] Behn Sir Patient Fancy V i: You’re a Dutch Butter-ferkin, a Kilderkin, a Double Jug.
at double jugg(s) (n.) under double, adj.
[UK] Behn Sir Patient Fancy V i: You’re a Dutch Butter-ferkin, a Kilderkin, a Double Jug.
at firkin of foul stuff, n.
[UK] Behn Sir Patient Fancy II i: If we Men of Quality fall out [...] why, there comes a Challenge upon it, and ten to one some body or other is run through the Gills.
at gills, n.1
[UK] Behn Sir Patient Fancy V i: For he’s the leudest Hector in the Town; he has all the Vices of Youth, Whoring, Swearing, Drinking, Damning, Fighting,—and a thousand more, numberless and nameless.
at hector, n.
[UK] Behn Sir Patient Fancy V i: Madam, in plain English, I am made a John-a-Nokes of, Jack-hold-my-staff, a Merry Andrew.
at jack-hold-my-staff (n.) under jack, n.1
[UK] Behn Sir Patient Fancy I: I’ll be rackt first, Mum budget,—prithee present me.
at mum!, excl.
[UK] Behn Sir Patient Fancy V i: Pray, how long is’t since you left Toping and Napping, for Quacking, good Brother Cater-tray?
at nap, v.1
[UK] Behn Sir Patient Fancy IV i: I have a sort of a matrimonial Kindness for a very pretty Woman [...] and last night she made me an Assignation in her Chamber: when I came to the Garden-door by which I was to have admittance, I found a kind of Necessary call’d a Baudy Waiting-Woman, whom I follow’d.
at necessary, n.
[UK] Behn Sir Patient Fancy I: ’Ds diggers, Sir, you have griev’d enough for your Mare in all Conscience; think of your Mistress now, Sir.
at ’s, abbr.
[UK] Behn Sir Patient Fancy 1: Zoz, I was a modest fool, that’s truth on’t.
at ’s, abbr.
[UK] Behn Sir Patient Fancy II ii: Lady Fancy At Games of Love Husbands to cheat is fair, / ’Tis the Gallant we play with on the square.
at on the square under square, adj.
[UK] Behn Sir Patient Fancy V i: Pray, how long is’t since you left Toping and Napping, for Quacking, good Brother Cater-tray?
at top, v.2
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